A weekly tally of noteworthy things that got stuck in my ears, Aug. 11–17, 2025.

Patricia Brennan – Of the Near and Far (Pyroclastic; due Oct. 24, 2025)

Mary Halvorson – About Ghosts (Nonesuch; 2025)

Sylvie Courvoisier & Wadada Leo Smith – Angel Falls (Intakt; due Oct. 3, 2025)

Ingrid Laubrock – Purposing the Air (Pyroclastic; 2025)

Steve Kuhn/Sheila Jordan Band – Playground (ECM; 1980)

Sheila Jordan – Jazz Child (HighNote; 1999)

Sheila Jordan – Comes Love: Lost Session 1960 (Capri; 2021)

Sheila Jordan – Better Than Anything: Live (There; 2015)

Sheila Jordan – Live at Mezzrow (Cellar Live; 2022)

Sheila Jordan with Roni Ben-Hur and Harvie S – Portrait Now (Dot Time; 2025)

Derek Bailey & John Stevens – The Duke of Wellington (Confront; 2025, recorded 1989)

John Butcher/Phil Durrant/Mark Wastell – Poznań: Appropriate Density (Confront; 2025)

Jane in Ether – Oneiric (Confront; 2025)

Zeena Parkins – Modesty of the Magic Thing (Tzadik; 2025)

IQ – The Wake (Sahara/Giant Electric Pea; 1985/2010)

Patrick Shiroishi – 勉強 (self-released; 2019)

Patrick Shiroishi – Forgetting Is Violent (American Dreams; due Sept. 19, 2025)

In Shame – Looming (Transylvanian Recordings; due Aug. 31, 2025)

Cassandra Miller – Just So – Quatuor Bozzini (Another Timbre; 2019)

Prairiewolf – Prairiewolf (Centripetal Force; 2023)

Prairiewolf – Lagniappe Session (Deluxe Edition) (self-released; 2023)

Prairiewolf – Deep Time (Centripetal Force; 2024)

Prairiewolf – Cloud Station, Crestone, CO, May 17, 2025 (Archive.org; 2025)

Arthur King – Ned’s Mystery Machine Vol. 1 (AKP Recordings; 2025)

Cassandra Miller – Traveller Song/Thanksong – Plus-Minus Ensemble, Quatuor Bozzini (Black Truffle; 2023)

Sloppy Heads – Sometimes Just One Second (self-released; 2023)

Joseph Holbrooke – Last Live 2001—in Memoriam Derek Bailey and Tony Oxley (Tzadik; 2025)

Anat Fort – The Dreamworld of Paul Motian (Sunnyside; 2025)

Taylor Brook – Ecstatic Music – TAK Ensemble (New Focus; 2016)

Zosha Di Castri – Tachitipo – Ekmeles, Talea Ensemble/Lorraine Vaillancourt, JACK Quartet, Julia Den Boer, International Contemporary Ensemble/Lorraine Vaillancourt, Yarn/Wire (New Focus; 2019)

Jürg Frey – Composer, alone – Reinier van Houdt (elsewhere; due Sept. 20, 2025)

David Sylvian – Secrets of the Beehive (Virgin; 1987)

YOB – Our Raw Heart (Relapse; 2018)

Windhand – Grief’s Infernal Flower (Relapse; 2015)

claire rousay – a little death (Thrill Jockey; due Oct. 31, 2025)

Derek Bailey – ECA [1992] (scatterArchive; 2025)

Franz Joseph Haydn – Haydn 2032, Vol. 17: Per il Luigi – Dmitri Smirnov, Kammerorchester Basel/Giovanni Antonini (Alpha Classics; 2025)

The Pineapple Thief – It Leads to This (Kscope; 2024)

John Butcher/Luigi Marino/Mark Wastell – Parallel Streams (Confront; 2024)

Steve Roach – The Reverent Sky (Projekt; 2025)

Geri Allen – Home Grown (Minor Music; 1985)

Title citation: IQ, “The Wake”